DocumentCode
975707
Title
A comparison of four-state generating unit reliability models for peaking units
Author
Billinton, Roy ; Ge, Jingdong
Author_Institution
Power Syst. Res. Group, Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask., Canada
Volume
19
Issue
2
fYear
2004
fDate
5/1/2004 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
763
Lastpage
768
Abstract
A peaking unit is different from a base load unit in that it resides most of the time in the available but not operating (ABNO) state. The conventional unit unavailability index is the forced outage rate (FOR) and is based on a two-state model. This model is not suitable for intermittent operating unit representation and results in an unreasonably high unavailability index estimate for a peaking unit. Three four-state models, which recognize the intermittent operating characteristics of a peaking unit, are introduced and compared in this paper.
Keywords
power generation reliability; available but not operating state; forced outage rate; generating unit reliability; intermittent operating unit representation; peaking units; Availability; Character recognition; Councils; Databases; Information systems; Maintenance; North America; Power generation; Power system modeling; Power system reliability;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0885-8950
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TPWRS.2003.821613
Filename
1294979
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